Answer:
First I would find the square root of 72 with a calculator, which happens to be 8.49 (rounded to the nearest hundreth)
So we know that the two integers will be close to 8.48
Since they are consecutive, lets first test out 8 and 9
We multiply these two and get 72, which is the number we were looking for.
now we find their sum.
9 + 8 = 17
Now since this is not part of the answers, we now asume that both 9 and 8 are negative numbers, since negative times a negative is a positive, but a negative plus a negative can still be negative.
-9 + -8 = -9 - 8 = -17!
So, the answer you are looking for is E: -17
